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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-09-30
Was he in yesterday?
Can't say.
Will he ever be in again?

Will he ever be in again?
The man started, and looked at me
for the first time in a quick searching
wav.
Wat do you mean he asked.
Has he come back with his daugh.
ter! | questioned, in turn.
He again started, came forward,
and sharply scrctinized my person
bat, as | fancled, with guilty con
science.
Wlo are you? What do YOU want
here? And why thee impertiment
questions ? he demand i in fierce
wav.
DON'T you know that Arace Gran
ger is dead ? said |, with aixed look
upon the fellow that made nm quail.
Dead he echoed, in wen hassum-
ed amazement and horror. Mood
heavens! How? When? Whefe2
How p by hanging; when ?-Sx
days ago; where? London, | answer
ed categorcally.
You take away my breath ? he al
most gasped.
What is your name ? / queried.
George Grenhem.
All, yes, the G. thought /.
You know Mr.. Granger went tt
London nearly a week ago to End his
daughter procseded.
saw the man turn pale and shud
der, as he answered in a mumbline
confused way:
| believe-he did-go-somewher
But his daughter was not in Lon
don, you know!
| said this at u venture, for | fanci
I'd | had OWNED the plot.
Why, how do you know that ?-tha
isl mean-
Never mind, interrupted, his daugh
ter was not there, but you we're.
Man! and his eyes fairly glared.
You had been there befpre in th'
guise of an old man, | went on; 20,
had engaged room in commercial
house to exhibit patent; you wen
on again and tslegraphed to your EN-
ployer that his daughter was fount
and locked up, and to come on tn
last train aod you met him at Lon
don bridge station. You did NEE
him; il was in the night you took him
to the room you had previously en-
gagged you fell upon him; you CARROT
ed him; you hung him to the wall
you burned the telegram. and thel
you hastened back here to play tn
role Of innocence!
went through with my accusa
tions go rapidly, giving the villain n,
! -.-ucs-4ze=arey-s or eSsaaFs
ruption--I piled one fact upon anoth
er so quickly and surely that | seem
ed to the guilty wrecth to De an eye
witness RELAXING what | had seen; an,
| brought the whole damnin!
scene so wildly t. his minds that
with face distorted with horror ant
covered with the sweat of menta
agony, he staggered back, sank dow
and half groaned and half shrieke'
out:
Good heavens. have mercy.
Well, had my clew, but before
could make much use OF it the mur
derous scoundrel blew ont his ow
brains.
or course the affair made qrite
sensation in certain circles at the tim
but was kept as much as possible iron
the public at large, and was soo'
hushed up and forgotten hy every
body not In any manner intereste
beyond the mere curiosity and sends
Of the hour.
What part the wife had in the wick
ed plot do not know.
!. l, of course, won the distinguishe
.pproval of my chief for the part
had taken in the affair, and that pro'
ed of much importance to Inc in
the future Of my profession.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-09-30

Now after reading these dlsjointei
sentences, began to study and ponder
them.
Might not this be a portion OF u
message sent to the dead man to lure
him on the city for purpose of put
ting him out of the way?
But for what motive?
All, that indeed could not know
that was something only to be
found out after serious investigation,
in Sc of one should be made.
examined the charred paper as
we'll AS | could, and reached the cou
clusion that what | had read was part
of telegram which had been sent By
somebody from London and recsived
by som, body at distance, and that
either the sender or receiver intended
to destroy it.
Now, if the deceased had received
it, it must have been s"nt to him b,
somebody, aud that somebody IN end
ed to meet him, and probably die
meet him, at the railway station.
Well, then, where was tn,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-09-30

The cream Of the base ball club
should be founl in the pitcher.
"B ar with me little" observed
the grizzly as he hugged the hunter.
GOA mamma" sighed little Ethel,
IL have such u headache in my sash J"
1t is the silent watches of the night
that render alarm clocks necessary.
The fisherman has no difficulty in
making both ends meet when he
catches an eel.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1887-09-30

An advertisement in a live paper is
of great assistance to q dentist. 1t
"draws" for him.
There is one drawback to being a
queen. The people know just how
lold you are.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06
PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION.

The Republican club of New York City
recently instructed its committee on asso
ciate organizations to open correspondence
with the Republican clubs of the country
with view to holding national conven-
ton, to be composed of delegates from
these clubs, for the purpose of considering
the propriety of organizing in the various
states of the Union large number of Re-
publican clubs and to determine the best
manner of conducting their work and to
devise some system that will conduce to
the efficient cooperation of these clubs in
state and national politics.
1t is believed that this work, if properly
arried out, will lead to increased party
efici ency; to an intelligent compensation
among the masses of the living questions
before the country and to degree of Or
ganization hitherto unknown In the history
of any political organization,
1t is not the purpose of this convention
to name, recommend or nominate any can
didate for Office, but to consider the best
manner of conducting work and thus bet
ter serve the aims and purposes of the party
In local, state and the national campaigns.
The secretary of the New York club,
Mr.. Henry Gleason, requests that the
names of all the clubs of the county be for
warded to him at No. 90 Beekman |
street. New York CITY. together with the |
names of their officers, and whether or not
their cooperation In the movement may be
counted on. The proposed convention will
be composed of say five duly accredited
delegates from each club, and is to be
holden in New York city some time in
September or October, the date to be agreed
upon. The secretary ,of the New York
club requests early responses upon the sub
iect that the matter of arrangements for the
may be facilitated.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06
LOUISVILLE'S BOOM,

The Courier Journal is working up a
boom for Louisville A boom is a good
thing for city to have around, and q
newspaper is the best possible medium
through which boom may make itself
apparent. But there are degrees and varie-
ties In booms. For instance the wind
boom lacks staying qualities. 1t peters
out In course of time as does case of
tlatulency and for pretty much the same
reason. A boom the force of whose mo-
mentum is made up of tangible things and
not airy nothingness, does not resort to
invidious comparisons that it may be felt
or believed. We are afraid that Just
here lies the weakness of Louisville's
Doom as set out in the
Courier. If Louisville's boom is the GEM
Inc thing, of bottom and hard facts, the
Courier Journal makes a mistake in at
tempting to belittle Wichita's boom. If
"ichita's boom were less conspicuous, or,
II time hadn't demonstrated its staying
qualities, the Courier Journal might not
hesitate to draw conclusions, or even throw
a little cold water In this direction. But
to compare Louisville's boom to that Of
Wichita's induces WEAKNESS which even
the bootblacks can't dodge Upon the
whole We fear that Louisvilles boom will
collapse without making a noise.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06
THE TRADES DISPLAY.

To say that yesterdays demonstration in
Wichita was grand success in every par
ticular is but to repeat what everybody
who knows Wichita and the Wichita way
of doing whatever she undertakes knew 1t
would be from the day the announcement
was made that 1t was determined to make
1t. As soon as the matter was decided and
the plans given out the people took hold of
1t and although the time in which to make
preparations was short it proved to be am
pie, as was shown by the presence of
representation of every industry in the city
in the line of the procession, as will be
seen by reference to the detailed report of
the occasion in the local columns of this
issue of the EAGLE
As reflex upon the business interests
of the city, industrial, commercial and
otherwise, the parade was not only graft
flying to the citizens of Wichita but was
surprising to our own people, while it was
simply bewildering to the multitudes of
visitors attracted here by the announce
ment that the demonstration would take
place. The procession comprised. with
but two or three exceptions, only one rep
of each industry or business,
q nd the conveyances bearing these varied |
a nd various exhibits followed each other in
CT ose order, and not scatteredalong at inter.
walls after the circus fashion. And yet this
c ompact column, moving at quick
pace occupied more than an hour and ahalf
If time in passing given point, which
shows that the line extended fully five
niles.
Viewed, then, as business and indus
rial exposition of Wichita of today it was
It once gratifying and satisfactory, but
'nly SO for the immediate present. twill
e rye as mile post, so to speak, in our
q arch of progression. 1t will serve as a
timulus for greater activity in all depart
nents of business and an incentive 10 new
q dustries to seek footholds in our midst.
was an occasion that caused everybody
D feel glad and one that cannot fail of
God results to the city. II
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

EAGLE is beginning TO circulate from
Washington Territory to Old Mexico
It's said our EAGLE has flown
TO some far off land but little known.
That Gold and hungry and benighted.
On ST. Alias be aiighted
And next day thswed his frozen feet:
Ger Heyman's volcanic heat
! He landed at Cape Prince of Wales.
To write reports and get his malls
contracted an awful bad case of poetry
down by the ocean the other day, but as
am writing in my room at Los Angeles
fifteen miles from the sea, have forgotten
the balance of my song, for which Ions
suffering public will feel thankful.
Yesterday afternoon Sunday did moi
crack the Sabbath by going down to the
beach with the rest of the sinners. hied
myself off to commune with the pensive
and grinsive ostrich, the frolicsome monkey
and other birds, at Washington gardens.
Here is an ostrich farm, also immense wire
houses filled with tropical birds, monkeys,
wild cats, coons and other wild American
animals. The ostriches are fenced In three
pens Of about two acres and there are abou:
one hundred of them. The ostrich Is q
mixture of bird and animal. He cannot
fly but when frightened he spreads his
wings and gets over the ground at race
horse speed, in sort of flying run. His
neck Is cross between that of a swan and
the trunk of an elephant and he is altogeth-
er very curious affair.
The egg of the ostrich is about the size
of Douglas Donnelly's head with the nose
and ears shaved off.
The other birds In this beautiful place
are indeed worth looking at, but what In
terested me more than all was the antics Of
lot of monkeys. The monkey was evil
IDENTITY made for no other purpose than
deviltry and he is bowling success at his
business There are several coons.
Not voting coons, but four legged animal,
in with these monkeys. They have ropes,
swings and all the conveniences for circus
business and no human clowns can equal
them. There is one large gray monkey of
the short tail sort and he Is the greatest
gen1us-man or beast-I ever saw.
Such monkeying as that monkey can 60
through would make deacon laugh in
church.
The Santa Fe railroad is doing great
work here and is the pride of the Pacific
coast. They are dredging through mar
row peninsula from the ocean to an hand
some lake about fourteen miles from here
for the purpose of making a harbor for
Las Angeles, and if 1t turns out to be what
the engineers expect 1t will give Las Ange-
les another tremendous boom.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

The attempts on the part of certain Geor-
gia convict lesses to besmirch the reputa-
ton of Governor Gordon because he at one
time had partnership interest In one of
the leases ought not as it will not harm
him nor yet deter him from making the in
vestigation that he has caused to be insd-
tuted into the matter the most thorough.
Such attempts only afford an additional
and urgent reason why he should cause the
charges against the accused to be vigorous
ly and thoroughly investigated. He can
not afford to let the suspicion get abroad
that he is loath to probe the matter to the
bottom for fear of unpleasant personal
consequences.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

year. There is no doubt of this, for tn,
tide is surely coming in and when 1t vii
end no one can foretell. In my next lette,
l will present the EAGLE some interesting
statistics touching the material advance
ment OF Pratt county since 1888. 1t will
read like page torn from volume Of
national industrial reports.
District court convenes next month.
The docket is light and uninteresting.
The city schools opened Monday, with
full corps OF teachers, gathered from the
best educational institutions of the east.
Principal WATSON Is thorough scholar
and capital disciplinarian. Few schools
in southwestern Kansas equal those of this
city. Owing to rapid increase in scho-
lastic population q new school house will
shortly became necessity.
The new hotel continues upward. When
completed this will be one of the best fin
ished carvansaries In the state. Put it in
the crown of your Derby, that people who
come to Pratt, will get something better
than crackers and mackeral heads in their
menu. This Is not a stiletto fling at our
excellent hotels-not for North America.
A school of photographic short hand
will soon be started in the city by a gradu-
ate of the Photographic Institute of Gin
cinnati, the Oldest institution of the kind
In the country.
Saratoga, a neighboring village, is just
now suffering whips and stings of intra-
geous torture. Suits for the foreclosure
of mortgages amounting to 5000 have
been filed by an Emporia loan company
against the Saratoga Land and Investment
Co. Other suits will follow. Saratoga
started into life with a pretentious name
aud bedizened with fine feathers. But the
last act of the roaring farce is come and
the curntain has rung down to rise no more.
The moral of all this news paragraph is.
never bite off more than you can chew.
The county seat case will soon be passed
upon by the supreme court, and Pratt will
prepare to erect magnificent temple of
Justice The new temple of Justice
will be visible from Saratoga.
The corn crop looks well In some parts
Of the country likewise the peach. |
The county fair promises to be shining
success in every department. The man
ayers are the character of men that always
succeed.
The weird looking watermelon fingers
with us like a restful memory. But the
'mealy potatoes that grew on the hill" to
indulge snatch of granger melody, is not
abundant. Wheat threshipg is going for
ward. This is my agricultural paragraph.
The race for district judge promises
ONE fun for the boys. II all reports be
rue Whitelaw will carry the county by
handsome majority. ITHUR1EL.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

7 here is not much likelihood of Mr.
Gladstone's assertion that If an appeal to
the country were taken this month on the
questions affecting Ireland now before par.
lament 1t would result In the return to
com mons of over one hundred Gladstone.
Parnellite majority" being verified, since
the present government has adroitly
avoided crisis such as to call for the dis
solution of the cabinet and consequent ap-
peal to the country and the reforming of
the cabinet under q new leader. Proclaim.
ing the Irish National League, while a
matter OF great moment to the country.
was not such an event because II did NO,
cause nor is 1t likely to lead to a crisis.
Mr.. Gladstone is indeed grand old man:
he has done and is doing much for the
cause of oppressed humanity and 'twere
pity be cannot enjoy full realization of
bis ardent hopes In Ireland's behalf, bu, II
seems now thst such realization will be de.
ferred beyond the expectancy Of Irelands
fast friend.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

An exciting conflict, and one that for a
time bid fair to assume disastrous proper
tions, occurred Saturday night about mid
night in Topeka between the employees of
two rival street railroad companies led by
their employers. 1t seems that rapid
transit line had been placed alongside the
line of the original horse car line on one Of
the principal streets near the centre of the
city. This so enraged the latter people
that with strong force of employees at the
hour named they proceeded to tear up the
track of the rival company and move their
own so as to prevent the former being re-
laid. This movement was met by coun-
ter force from the other side when disgrace
full scenes of rioting ensued and continued
for an hour before the moyor and other
officials of the city could quell It and
restore order. In speaking of the occur
renee the Commonwealth says, editorially
The promoters of the riot are heart
lily condemned by all classes of citizens.
There Is, in fact, an intensity of feeling
over the matter, and it needed but a
leader yesterday for some of the
best and usually conservative citizens to
take hand In the affair and settle the
question of the Tenth street crossing so
emphatically that there would be no oppo- |
sition to their verdict afterward. The |
quarrels of the various street railroad COM
panies of Topeka have become disgustingly |
frequent, as well as the instances of the
utter disregard for law in the shape of
statute or ordinance which they evince.
Both sides claim they want to do what is
right, but both sides take very queer
methods to accomplish their idea of what
Is right.
There the matter rests for the present.
The contest will be transferred to the
courts for the settlement of the questions
1t issue where 1t should have been taken at
he outset by the parties interested and
.hus save themselves from the popular con-
lemnation brought upon them and the
;apital city, the humiliation and disgrace
brought upon it by the unseemly wrangle.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06
consequence

When the administration papers like the
New York Times, Philadelphia Record,
and others, throw the blame for the defec-
ton in the party on the Presidents lieuten-
ants, it Is high time that Cleveland desisted
from his two-faced policy. He can't afford
to pose as civil service reformer in one
state and as rank spokesman in another
Baltimore American.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

Chief Justice Waite was fifty seven years
OF age when he was appointed as a member
of the supreme court of the United States,
and although he has passed his SEVENTEEN
birthday, he seems about as vigorous as
ever. He might retire, and yet retain his
salary to the end of life; but. as we are glad
to learn. he has no intention of doing so.
He prefers to work for the salary as long
as his strength will permit.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

Information has reached the governor
that the county seat election in Logan
county resulted in a majority of 269 votes
for Russell Springs, the total number of
votes cast being S15. The governor has
also received numerously signed petition
asking the appointment of J. w. Kearns,
n. c. Phinney and R. 81. Mcknight as
county commissioners, Jos. Jones as coun-
ty clerk, and N. T. PERUVIAN as sheriff.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

DIR. McGlynn says that poverty is q
disease" and to this the New York Trib-
une pithily replies: Perhaps, but If the
patient treat 1t with hvpodermic injections
OF honesty and steady applications of in
dnstry, # can be overcome" We know of
no better cure for that sort of disease.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

Estimated by his success In making other
People his creditors Henry Ives is perhaps
On titled to the soubriquet of the Napoleon
OF finance. Few men have succeeded in
getting seventeen millions of dollars in debt
ut any age, feat Ives accomplished before
he was q wears old.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

In Difference to the request of the author:
tiles controlling the constitutional centen-
NAL at Philadelphia the president has
ordered Gen. Phil Sheridan to take COM
mand of the United States troops present
at that celebration on September Is, 16 and
IL. A proper and appropriate request and
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

The st ate of Texas has everything on the
order of extremes. The principle seems to
obtain in every direction, In elementary
and physical forces no less than political
For many months the severest drouth ever
ex perienced in this country pervaded a
con siderable portion of the state, and this
has been followed by succession of rain
storms and floods that have caused great
distress. Verify the state appears to be in
= bad Way
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

An anarchist in New York remarks In
one of the New York papers that when
anarchy is established, the men who are
able to build yachts will be the owners of
them, which prompts the Hartford Cour-
ant to SIX why not "the men who are able
to sail them?" Of what use is a yacht to
the man who built 1t If he can't sail it.
There's good deal more in anarchy than
the New York advocate unfolded. If the
people who make things must keep them,
what Is to become Of the exchange of pro-
ducts?
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

"A washington Star reporter found the
hon. John G. Carlisle In the speakers
room at the capitol Wednesday, and had a
talk about matters and things with him. II
arrangements have been made for a confer.
ence OF leading Democrats before the
meeting of congress, Mr.. Carlisle hasn't
been taken into confidence. He explains
the falling off In the Democratic vote In
Kentucky as due wholly to over confidence
and to local issues-quite devoid, there
fore of political significance C"Glorious
doctrinei' said the old sinner at the Uni.
versalist meeting, I'D give five dollars If
1t was true'0. The Kentucky Democrats
Henry Wstterson included-are solid for
the Cleveland administration; he dosen't
know an exception. He is rejoiced TO see
that the Democratic party In Pennsylvania
Is moving towards tariff reform, and he
hopes that In the coming elections the
Democrats everywhere will leave the war
issues to the Republicans and devote
themselves to the living questions Of the
hour. MIR. Carlisle Is not noted as q hu.
moatst but his remark In reference to the
Pennsylvania Democrats and the tariff is
70 very funny that 1t cannot fail to provoke
NE rabies Of the most austere.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

Last Friday was day of fortunate mis-.
for sunes. Near Parsons, this state, an ex-
cursion train with eight hundred persons
aboard was ditched, but no one injured; a
passen ger train with four hundred passen-
gers aboard collided with freight train
near Springfield, Mo-, though no one was
hurt; while near Lebanon, Ohio, an at
tempt was made to derail train of eleven
cars containing five hundred excursionists.
but which attempt failed and the train
and people escaped. In three coincidents
the lives of seventeen hundred persons were
In Imminent jeopardy, though all escaped
unhurt. Remarkable, indeed. in these
times OF wholesale slaughter upon such oc-
casions.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-06

Judge Field may have convinced him
self and his associates on the California
bench that Senator Stanford can not be
compelled to answer certain questions as
to how the money was spent at Washing
ton and Sacramento, remarks the Globe
Democrat, but he will have hard task to
convince the public of this view of the
matter. Judging from the remarks daily
dropped by the wayside, there are great
many persons who still think 1t matter of
public concern 70 know why certain parties
at the legislature should receive money
from railroad corporations. Judge Fields
decision will hardly meet the support of
popular opinion.